New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-05
FAIRFIELD DEAD.
TIE AND HIS WIFE KILLED BY MORPHINE.


s.n rxn or A c,UpiE WHO BEGAN THEIR MAR
RID LIFE WITH GREAT PROMISE.
Francis, Gerry Fairfield, clergyman. journalist autnof
of work on spirituasm, and veterinary surgeon oe"
av Yesterday I'm the Southern Boarding House att Forty
secopd-st and Third ave-. from the effects OF the opium
habit While he was on his death-bed, Ills WHO
lose phue daughter OF Judge Griswoid' OF inc
limited States District Court, ana sis1in Ia"
of Bret Harte died from the same cause IN INC
house, No. 81 stuyvesantsf, and her pody was sen "
.be Nforcue He did not know OF her death ana thcir
relatives were aware OF 1t until her pouy hao oec
sent to the Potters Field for burial ExJudge Samuel
" Fairfield of No 316 Lexingtonave., brother OF the
dead man. made arrangements yesterday 10 remove MI
Fairfes body Lis mothers home in Stafford springs,
Conn.
Mr. Fairfield educated at private school in Massa
cusctts at the Gettysburg University and at Lutheran
theological seminary. Before he was of age he
was placed IN charge OF Lutheran church at Waterloo
After "a yssr or two % RseiH n the EDITORIAL
management of The Home Journal Later he was writer
~ w"s in Mexico at the time OF Maxnlans execution
and account OF II us an eyewitness , sv.raI
rnaners lie also wrote poems and stories for
magazines investigated r was said to he
extensive he did not turn 1t to mncn s IA "a
OF making money rang s. 10 ony To- give up
his practice in disgust after a short trial . A., .o =,
morphine and his wife, beautiful and , We'll
Cheated fell into the same an boa nSG
houses avoiding wealthy and influential friends ke-
Gently AR Fairfield wrote chiefly Tor me Sa,.a"g ;n
tn,y and Ihe Albany Argus His brother gave MN
money frequently and tried in vain to induce him 10
omit the use of mophine For more than year MI.
Fairfield and his wife had boarded at No 2! stuyvesan
81, During March they paid nothing LOT ne s
board All the money they could get was spent Tor
morphine and their landlady was put on WIN pronses
On Monday, week ago. Mr. Fairfield tola MS 9G0thtp
that Mrs Fairfield was sick at the house OF friend III
Morrisania. o,s 1850. o., ,,s ,ro,ber,s law
office in TIE TR bLding aud asked for more money
He hooked so much like tramp that his brother b0nght
him some new clothing As he said ne aId ,a nTs
care TO go where his wife was his brother took
him to the Southern Boarding House. beheVlMhg
that Mrs Fairfield in Morrisania p MI
Fairfield failed rapidly at the boarding Eve ny
day when his brother visited him he begged pteous Io
n,orphue on Friday Mrs. Fairfield, who had been III a
similar condition, died in Stuyvesantst num9eI VI
bottles which had contained morphine were fouu IN ner
room and it was first supposed she had comuiea sun
eide In the absence of her husband no one coul9 zen
ii she had relatives. and coroner had her STeS
remoyed 10 the Morgue Mr.. Fairfield was Vlslle1
Inv his brother on Sunday night and he continued to ask
FOR morphine He ignorant OF his wifes death anu
did not sneak OF her. At yesterday ne was iounu
dead in bed While his brother was arranging ior me re-
1pOya OF his body Connecticut he hrst learned ua'
Mrs. Fairfield was dead also